Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM. Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 270,637 kWh of zero carbon power and our new PV array produced 45,240kWh, displacing the emission of 145 tonnes of […]

We’re delighted our project managers at Hockerton Housing Project are joining a new mentoring service for Community Energy projects as a Peer Mentor, thanks to a new project funded by the Esmee Fairburn Foundation. Like the other Peer Mentors across […]

Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM. Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 298,898 kWh of zero carbon power and our new PV array produced 1,103kWh, displacing the emission of 133.64 […]

Today our new 50kW solar PV system was commissioned, sited on the roofs of (free-range) chicken sheds at a local farm. We funded the system through a mix of the Society’s reserves and loans from members, with the former to […]

Do you want to help improve the energy efficiency of homes in your area? Are people in your community struggling to pay their energy bills? Confused by the Green Deal and ECO? Not sure what other forms of funding are […]

Our project managers at Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) are looking for community energy projects who want to learn from our experience, to take advantage of a new Mentoring Fund. The scheme is only open to applicants until 12 December 2013, but successful […]

Today SHOCK Directors reported progress on its sustainability objectives to its AGM. Environmental: In the last year our wind turbine has produced 281,212 kWh of zero carbon power, displacing the emission of 146.33 tonnes of carbon dioxide from fossil fuelled […]

South Brent’s community-owned Vestas V27 started production last week and 10th September sees 2355kWh on the clock. It is great to this project go live, as it is very similar to our local Sustainable Hockerton turbine, which is also fully community […]

If this property’s share in our community-owned wind turbine were taken into account, it would have the lowest energy use and CO2 emissions of all properties in the recent Government-backed Retrofit Revealed report. The Government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded the Retrofit for the […]